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"I've had the pleasure of working alongside Alaa at Luma AI, where he leads our SRE function. Alaa is one of the most knowledgeable and reliable engineers I've worked with. He built and maintained the core infrastructure that powers both our training and inference systems,work that is foundational to everything we do as a company. What stands out about Alaa is his ability to deliver outsized impact with a lean team. He operated effectively when the team was small, wearing many hats and keeping critical systems running, while simultaneously growing the SRE organization through thoughtful hiring. He has a rare combination of deep technical expertise and the operational judgment to know what matters most at any given moment. Anyone who gets to work with Alaa is lucky to have him on their side. I'd recommend him without hesitation."

"Alaa is a true powerhouse SRE. In the early days of Luma he was solely responsible for managing our clusters, and he worked tirelessly to keep everything reliable while we scaled. He is incredibly knowledgeable and maintained a very high bar for both our infrastructure and the calibre of new hires joining the team. Beyond being a technical lead, he's a genuinely kind person. It was amazing having him on the team and I'm sure anyone who works with Alaa in the future will feel the same way."

"Worked with Alaa at Luma, where he headed the SRE organization. From setting up and managing massive GPU clusters to diagnosing issues at scale, Alaa was instrumental in scaling AI infrastructure at the company from the early days. I learned a lot about GitOps, observability and debugging subtle issues (like loadbalancer keep alive timeouts) from my time working with him. He is also an extremely nice person to work with and stays very grounded in stressful times – an asset to any organization he's a part of."

"I've worked with Alaa during my time at Luma AI. I have to say he is extremely knowledgeable about SRE topics, and through his leadership of the SRE team we have been able to accomplish great things. He has a deep focus on making sure our infrastructure is secure and fully automated. He also makes sure compute providers are always delivering the best services and capabilities. All in all, he is a phenomenal reliability engineer that can lead and architect top of the line systems."

"Alaa is one of the hardest working SRE / AI infrastructure folks that we have had at Luma. He helped scale our resources from when we had a single node to now where we have thousands of nodes across multiple backbones. Alaa has been a crucial part of Luma's success allowing us effectively to scale our resources and compute. He has deep understanding of modern AI infrastructure and continues to learn and push himself to get better as needed. Alaa would be a great hire for any team looking for a strong technical leader in the space."

"Alaa is one of the best engineers I've enjoyed working with. He built whole infra in Luma from scratch, made some impossible things possible."

"Alaa is great,always a pleasure working with him. Alaa set up, maintained, and built tools for our GPU infrastructure on multiple cloud providers across tens of thousands of GPUs in a maintainable and reliable way. Not only that, but Alaa also has very strong cross-functional intuition and goes above and beyond to build systems to the needs of internal teams and external customers alike!"

"Alaa established most of our infrastructure on Kubernetes. He worked closely with developers and made it easy to deploy and scale services up and down. He also implemented an observability stack on all services. Alaa showed good communication with his coworkers. He did a great job building a step-by-step roadmap explaining the phases for developing the infrastructure."

"Alaa is a high professional engineer. He advised great things not only to his belonging team but also another team too. Also his courtesy is there, from the perspective of a Japanese worker. Thanks for your contribution and see you in Japan soon!"

"I've worked with Alaa for a few months at an SaaS Gaming Platform provider. Alaa is an extremely skillful and passionate engineer that enjoys building scalable and reliable infrastructure/solutions. He is willing to share his knowledge and mentor others. It was a pleasure working with him and would definitely recommend!"

"I've worked closely with Alaa for a few months on an online multiplayer gaming backend project. It was a pleasure working with him! His passion for his craft is contagious, and he is never shy to share his knowledge and expertise. I definitely learned a lot and would be thrilled to work with him again."

"I had the privilege to learn and work with Alaa for at least 6 months and the experience is great! Alaa is an exceptionally skillful SRE, always keeps up with the latest best practices and happy to share his wisdom. His deep knowledge in infrastructure, distributed system and observability help us build abstraction and automation on top of our complex setup. Within a few weeks he managed to build a scalable yet reliable framework for infrastructure team to build on and effectively reduce operational costs from weeks to hours. On top of this he manages to keep the documentation up to date for others to follow."

"Working with Alaa was a great experience. His wide knowledge across the whole stack (together with a deep understanding of distributed systems, algorithms and protocols underlying the applications we worked on together), makes him a truly versatile problem-solver. On top of that, his engaging, friendly personality makes him a great teammate and mentor to learn from. I personally am looking forward to working with him again one day."

"Alaa managed our company's infrastructure on AWS. He is really good at using abstraction and automation to scale platforms and environments to any size. He is a quick and eager learner and always implementing the latest best practices. He is happy to share his experience and knowledge and come up with solutions for the needs and wishes of the software engineers in the team and is generally really pleasant to work with."

"Alaa is a responsible, competent and self-motivated professional. In almost two years I've been working with Alaa I can't remember a single problem with the infrastructure he has built and maintained. Constantly striving for improvement of the infrastructure, Alaa has also been extremely helpful and responsive to the requests from the rest of the team (and mine personally)."

"I had the pleasure of working with Alaa for two years. He's an exceptional engineer with a tremendous amount of accumulated wisdom and is always hungry to learn more. His continuous delivery of highly reliable infrastructure in a fast-moving environment was a key part of the success of our startup. In addition to being a fount of knowledge, he's also an all-round great person to work with and as such I'd have no hesitation recommending him for future hire."

"Outstanding, a 'living library' or a deeply focused person of excellence. All of these form a perfect description of Alaa and his work. But the one thing that impressed me most while working with this guy is his unbelievable deep-rooted passion for culture and humanity. At Brainly we created, led by Alaa, an immutable, scalable and highly tolerant internal microservices platform (AAS) being able to run thousands of docker based units. If you need a modern but still strong and reliable platform, Alaa is one of the best bets I know these days."

"Working with Alaa was a pleasure. He was always happy to help anyone who has requested it, and he took an extra mile to introduce and implement his ideas on how we could improve the infrastructure at Wimdu. Apart from the technical skills, Alaa is a very nice person, easy to work with, who can quickly integrate with the team. If you are looking for an experienced DevOps, Alaa is the right choice."

"Alaa knows unix-based systems inside out. During his time at Wimdu he managed to improve existing infrastructure a lot and has been the main innovation driver in this area. The kind of challenges that would have been overwhelming for majority of people are welcomed by him with an excitement. Not only is he a real professional but also a great teacher, Alaa will always find some time to answer your questions or just discuss any kind of tech-related topic. Apart from all this he is just a pure joy to be around."

"Though only for a short period of time, I had the pleasure to work with Alaa at Wimdu. Alaa is very proficient and has deep understanding of computer system security what enables him to do magic. On top of his already existing skill set he grasps new tools and technologies with ease and no time. Besides all of that he is a very pleasant person to spend time with."

"I've had the pleasure of working with Alaa across two companies. He is a truly exceptional devops engineer, always at the forefront of technology, not afraid to push the boundaries, and with stability and security always at the forefront of his thinking. At Brainly he developed a highly scalable and highly redundant immutable infrastructure on which we built microservices."

"Working with Alaa was always a great pleasure. He has very strong technical and social skills. He always bases his arguments on facts and data, and generally uses scientific approach for everything in his professional environment. He successfully implemented microservices platform. This platform is a joy to use and maintain. It is extremely resilient to failure and self-healing. If you ask me, if I want to work together with him, my answer will be: 'Yes, anytime!'. If you ask me, if I would hire him, I would say: 'Yes, anytime!'. So should you."